HMS Cornwall (1761)
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Cornwall was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1761 at Deptford.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p176" />
The ship was named in honour of James Cornewall, who had been killed at the battle of Toulon in 1744, and was initially commanded by his cousin Frederick Cornewall who lost an arm in the same engagement.<ref name=gent>Template:Cite journal</ref>
She served in the English Channel until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. After service as a guard ship at Plymouth, she was sent to North America to serve in the American Revolutionary War. May, 1778 under command of Capt. Timothy Edwards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She arrived in New York on 30 July 1779 and just ten days later was in a confrontation with the French Navy. Later that year she was deployed to the West Indies where she was badly damaged in action off Grenada and again off Martinique in 1780. She was sent to St Lucia for repairs, but her damage was too extensive. Deemed unserviceable, she was destroying by burning on 30 June 1780.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p176" /><ref name="SoN, Cornwall">Ships of the Old Navy, Cornwall.</ref>
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- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. Template:ISBN.
- Michael Phillips. Cornwall (74) (1761). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 1 September 2008.